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‘The photo was accompanied by a story about the children's origins and backgrounds and details of their adoption by American families.’

‘They surely apply to people of different sexes, different social origins, and perhaps different personal beliefs or psychological dispositions.’

‘In background checks individuals were judged less by their social origins than by their current activities.’

‘Manalito, a native Indian with ancestral origins in Canada, recalls the moment when news of the tsunami first broke.’

‘He emphasized that equality in America also means meritocracy, a stress on equality of opportunity among individuals regardless of social origins.’

‘Born in Dublin and sent to an orphanage, his social origins and date of birth remain obscure.’

‘Children with a positive self-image and who identify with their families may investigate their origins solely for background information.’

‘They varied greatly in their educational backgrounds, their ethnic origins and their attitudes when they came in to the room to meet the man giving the presentation, and the five of us who were there to watch.’

‘The Muslim community in America is made up of people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and national origins.’

‘In terms of their social and educational origins these producers' backgrounds are broadly middle-class and meritocratic.’

‘It is the distinctive items in his diet that communicate not just the man's low social stature but also his specifically rural, peasant origins.’

‘Unfortunately it was all too easy in those times for the general public to tar everyone with the same brush, especially those from ethnic backgrounds or origins, irrespective of race, colour or creed.’

‘It took years of archeological excavation to trace the origins and ancestry of various races.’

‘We also discriminate based on other peoples' race, religion, ethnic origin, gender or social class among ourselves.’

‘Wright looks back to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England to explain the social origins of Australia's distinctive pub culture.’

‘It not only provides an account of the society which underpinned this success, but is also a very useful source for tracing the social origins of the Dutch nation as it is today.’

‘He said the project would work with young people from different backgrounds and ethnic origins with the youngsters creating their own work at a professional standard.’

‘They were people of all races, religions, ethnicities, and social origins.’

‘As I have set out above, the school has for many years taught pupils from a wide variety of ethnic origins, cultural backgrounds and religious faiths.’

‘In terms of social origins, most came from a peasant background, reflecting their rural births.’